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From Our Assembly Correspondent
Nasarawa State House of Assembly, says it would effectively partner with the state government in order to tackle youths restiveness and unemployment via it's good policies and programmes.
Chairman House Standing Committee on Youth and Sports Development, Hon. Muhammed Garba Isimbabi, member representing Toto/Gadabuke made the call when management of the ministry of Youth and Sports Development as well as NAYES appeared for their 2024 budget defence today in Lafia.
He said, for budget to be transparent, items contained must be explicitly for easy understanding, tracking and implementation.
Hon. Isimbabi appreciated the ministry for preparing a good budget and promised to look into their challenges and ensure necessary adjustment that will assist in achieving the mandates of the ministry.
In the same vein, the committee also hosted Nasarawa State Youth Empowerment Scheme (NAYES) and encouraged them to develop mechanism to generate more revenue for the state.
The Chairman of the committee, challenge management of NAYES to deploy more of its staff to Karu and other cities of the state to address the unlawful packing of vehicle along the major roads.
He urged the scheme to improve on its revenue generation through fines on the drivers who violated the law.
Speaking, the General Manager of NAYES, Mr Abdullahi Labaran, who led other management staff to the assembly thanked the committee for its continuous support to the scheme to succeed.
He promised to abide with the advice given by the committee to ensure free road traffic along the major roads, especially along Keffi/Karu axis of the state.
He promised to improve in the area of revenue generation.
Generally issues of more employment of youths also top discussion where the lawmaker Hon. Isimbabi said more efforts need to be put in place in that direction.
